Undercutting

[Skivvy]

Price things the way you want. You decide the value of your time, not others.

If someone thinks you've listed it too low, they're welcome to buy the item to relist for profit. That takes your low priced item off the mb and returns current prices to what they had been, usually before anyone other than the buyer has noticed.


I list a buy order for 580 gear at 1 gil.

I didn't just crash your marketboard. I killed it. No one is going to sell to me for 1 gil because materials are more expensive but now they also can't sell to others because my buy order has to be filled first under your system.

The last thing you want to do is give buyers such absolute control over the market prices because they're looking to pay as little as possible just as sellers are trying to sell for as much as possible. That's why the free market exists - so a price point can be reached that both sides are willing to accept as reasonable.

I've not seen a buy/sell system quite like the one Grizzly had mentioned, but I do like how it's handled in GW2. You can place a buy or sell order for whatever price you like, but no one is obligated or stuck just because someone low balled an item. You can still choose to sell at what price you like.

A visual:


So on that one, I guess if someone is feeling suuupuer charitable, they could actually sell that armor to the person requesting to buy it at 35 gold. Or they could insta-sell it to the top buy-request. OR list it at what they feel like and wait for someone to come along to buy it.